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MINUTE BY ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY,
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FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
I should be glad if the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Acting Registrar General, and Dr. ErTEL would examine this list and question a sufficient number of the proposed emigrants to enable them to determine whether they are really free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever.
J. POPE HENNESSY.
777 Ching Kit,
778 Ching Fook,
779 Ching Foon,
780 Chin Lan,
781 Jue Shun,
782 Young Ng,
783 Ching Ting,
784 See Zee,
785 Ching Yun,
786 Seu Tat,
787 Seu Chew,
788 Seu Bing,
789 Seu Hing,
790 Seu Kwoon,
791 Sea Hong,
792 Seu Chek,
793 Sen Chun,
794 Ning Man,
795 Ning Sam,
796 Ning Kum,
797 Wong Tong,
798 Chow Chu,
799 Loo Tsoy,
800 Soe See,
801 Soc Tsoy,
802 Choy Ching,
803 Choy Kow,
804 Choy Wing,
805 Jue Ping,
806 Jue Chick,
807 Jue Lim,
808 Jue Wing,
809 Jue Cheong,
810 Jue Shing,
Choy Shing Tack,
Yip Toong Poo,
Yun Show,
Liu Kee,
Yip Yune,
Choy Lok,
Ching Yow,
Lai Wang,
Lai Yune,
Cheong Chan,
Ching Lai,
Lau How,
Ching Keo,
Lou Chow,
Chung Check,
Wong Chun,
Chay Ting,
Chew Shing,
Lou Yun,
Soe Yin,
Lou Cheong,
Mok Mooi,
Mok Kut,
Chung Fic,
Tam Chung,
Tam Tim,
Shew Kum,
Tick Chee,
Lee Yü
SUMMARY,
Total Males: 163
Total Females: 6
Total: 169
(Signed)
C. S. LEWIS.
EXTRACT FROM REPORT BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY AND ACTING REGISTRAR GENERAL.
In compliance with His Excellency's instructions conveyed in his Minute of the 25th instant, the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Acting Registrar General met this morning, at 9 o'clock, at the Harbour Office, as arranged yesterday with the Emigration Officer.
When the Emigration Officer had satisfied himself, we asked such questions as we thought necessary. In this way, we examined ten men, occupying two hours in so doing. We annex notes of the evidence, from which we satisfied ourselves that, if the emigrants were not free and under no contract of service, it would be impossible for us to show that they were not.
Under these circumstances, we thought we had sufficiently carried out our instructions, and were preparing to leave, when His Excellency's Minute of the 26th instant was received. This was shown to the Emigration Officer, who was also informed that it would be communicated to him in the usual official way.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
JOIN GERRARD,
Acting Registrar General.
Hongkong, 26th April, 1881.
NOTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN AT AN EXAMINATION OF EMIGRANTS ON THE 26TH APRIL, 1881.
LAM CHIU-SAM (No. 657).—
I am a gardener. I am going to Cooktown. I have paid my own passage: $32. No relatives go with me. I have been a gardener in Shek-k'i. I have got no assistance from any one with my passage money. It is my own savings. I have never been abroad before. I have been in Hongkong 17 days, living in the “Tin-i-t'ong.” I have paid 50 cents for my board. I had about 26 taels when I left Shek-ki. I have been at Shek-k'i from birth. I earned about $3 a month. I am married and have two children.
WONG A-CHAN (No. 712).—My uncle wants me to go to Sydney. He lives there. I paid my own passage: that is, my mother gave me the money. I am going with a brother. There are four of us going from Pák-shek. This is the first time I have been abroad. I have to return no portion of my earnings to any one for my passage. I will send money to my mother. My uncle is a coolie in the On-cheung Hong in Sydney. I am going to dig gold. I was a coolie in a cuttle-fish shop in Pák-shek. I earned a dollar a month. I brought $45 with me to Hongkong. I have been 5 days here. I lived in the "I-on," Praya West, with friends. I paid nothing. I paid $42 for my passage to Sydney.